Elateia
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Elateia (; ) was an ancient Greek city of Phthiotis, and the most important place in that region after Delphi. It is also a modern-day town that is a former municipality in the southeastern part of Phthiotis. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is a municipal unit of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia. Its population is 2,804 inhabitants (2021 census) and its land area is 154.361 km2. The municipal seat was the town of Eláteia (pop. 2,002); other communities are Zeli (466), Panagítsa (148), Lefkochóri (99) and Sfáka (89).
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Elateia
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ελάτεια
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Elatias.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Central Greece
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Phthiotis
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Amfikleia-Elateia
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 2804
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 2002
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 154.4
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΜΙ
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Described at
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού | Ελάτεια
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Elateia (; ) was an ancient Greek city of Phthiotis, and the most important place in that region after Delphi. It is also a modern-day town that is a former municipality in the southeastern part of Phthiotis. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is a municipal unit of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia. Its population is 2,804 inhabitants (2021 census) and its land area is 154.361 km2. The municipal seat was the town of Eláteia (pop. 2,002); other communities are Zeli (466), Panagítsa (148), Lefkochóri (99) and Sfáka (89).
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elateia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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